Hopefully WiiSpeak is for Super mario galaxy 2. an online co-op mode for that game would be amaazing! same for new super mario bros wii.

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Hey, I have a bunch of Gamecube games that I need to unload so how much do you think I'll get at Gamespot for each?

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haha yeah, I meant Gamestop

Hey, I have a bunch of Gamecube games that I need to unload so how much do you think I'll get at Gamestop for each?

Mr. Game and Watch is awesome. You never know what you're going to get.:P

MLB.com report on the Colorado Rockies' first Spring Training Game

ROCKIES 7, WHITE SOX 3
at Tucson, Ariz.
Wednesday, Feb. 27

Rockies at the plate: Matt Holliday looks in midseason form. The defending National League batting champion singled off of John Danks and doubled high off of the center-field wall against Bobby Jenks in the third.

White Sox at the plate: Brian Anderson, playing left field, doubled off the left-field wall in the second and walked in the fourth to start his bid to work his way back into roster contention. Josh Fields delivered a run-scoring single in the second.

Rockies on the mound: Jeff Francis yielded one run on three hits over two innings. Colorado's Opening Day starter struck out one and didn't issue a walk, but he did hit Jim Thome with a pitch in the first.

White Sox on the mound: John Danks gave up a home run to Troy Tulowitzki in the opening frame, but otherwise looked sharp over two innings. The southpaw picked up three strikeouts, with two of them being called.

Cactus League records: Rockies 1-0; White Sox 0-1.

Up next: The two teams meet again on Thursday afternoon at Hi Corbett Field, with Jose Contreras and Aaron Cook getting the starts. The White Sox play six games against the Rockies this spring.

Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. ColoradoABRHRBIBBSOLOBAVGTaveras, CF3000010.000 a-Fowler, PH-CF20230001.000Tulowitzki, SS2111100.500 1-Herrera, J, PR-SS1000101.000Helton, 1B2100112.000 Koshansky, 1B2000003.000Holliday, LF3020001.667 Smith, LF2000000.000Atkins, 3B2011101.500 2-Kata, PR-3B2110000.500Hawpe, RF3011022.333 3-Barker, PR-RF2100001.000Torrealba, C3000003.000 McKenry, C2110001.500Nix, 2B1100210.000 Stewart, 2B1000001.000Giles, M, DH3000003.000 b-Gaetti, J, PH-DH1100000.000Totals377966519
a-Singled for Taveras in the 6th. b-Reached on error for Giles, M in the 8th.
1-Ran for Tulowitzki in the 5th. 2-Ran for Atkins in the 6th. 3-Ran for Hawpe in the 6th.
BATTING
2B: Holliday (1, Jenks), Hawpe (1, Day), McKenry (1, Sisco).
HR: Tulowitzki (1, 1st inning off Danks, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Fowler 2; Tulowitzki 4; Holliday 3; Atkins; Kata; Hawpe 2; McKenry 2.
RBI: Tulowitzki (1), Atkins (1), Hawpe (1), Fowler 3 (3).
2-out RBI: Fowler 2.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Torrealba; Atkins; Holliday; Koshansky 2.
GIDP: Helton.
Team LOB: 9.

BASERUNNING
SB: Herrera, J (1, 2nd base off Wassermann/Pierzynski).

FIELDING
DP: (Atkins-Nix-Koshansky).

Chi White SoxABRHRBIBBSOLOBAVGBourgeois, CF4010122.250Cabrera, SS3011003.333 Rouse, SS2000001.000Thome, DH3000002.000 a-Ramirez, PH-DH0000100.000Konerko, 1B3020001.667 Eldred, 1B2110001.500Dye, RF3010001.333 Negron, RF1000100.000Pierzynski, C3110003.333 Lucy, C2010002.500Fields, 3B3011002.333 Huffman, R, 3B2011001.500Uribe, 2B3110001.333 Getz, 2B10100001.000Anderson, LF4010125.250Totals3931334425
a-Walked for Thome in the 8th.
BATTING
2B: Pierzynski (1, Francis), Anderson (1, Francis), Uribe (1, Towers), Cabrera (1, Towers), Bourgeois (1, Redman), Lucy (1, Speier).
TB: Bourgeois 2; Cabrera 2; Konerko 2; Eldred; Dye; Pierzynski 2; Lucy 2; Fields; Huffman, R; Uribe 2; Getz; Anderson 2.
RBI: Fields (1), Cabrera (1), Huffman, R (1).
2-out RBI: Cabrera; Huffman, R.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Cabrera 2; Thome 2; Rouse; Anderson 3.
GIDP: Fields.
Team LOB: 15.

FIELDING
E: Fields (1, throw), Cabrera (1, fielding), Huffman, R (1, fielding).
PB: Pierzynski (1).
DP: (Cabrera-Konerko).

Diamondbacks' Outfielder Eric Byrnes is very happy for his chance to start everyday for the snakes. Mlb.com explains:

TUCSON, Ariz. -- He's got a three-year, $30 million contract in his back pocket. He had dinner with President George W. Bush at the White House in January and he even has his own television show.

Much has changed for Eric Byrnes since his first Spring Training with the D-backs in 2006, when he came to camp hoping to resurrect his career.

Although his career circumstances have changed, Byrnes bristles at the notion that the money or success will impact the way he approaches the game.

"I'm not going to change," Byrnes said. "I wear my emotions on my sleeve. I love this game. I love having the opportunity to play professional baseball and I realize how fortunate I am. There's not a day that I take for granted playing Major League Baseball. It sounds rehearsed and politically correct, but for me, it's the truth."

Byrnes' outlook has a lot to do with his memory of what it felt like in December 2005, when the Orioles told him his services were no longer required. It was a culmination of a nightmare season during which he spent time with three teams.

The A's traded Byrnes to the Rockies on July 15 that year and, two weeks and a .189 batting average later, he was dealt to Baltimore, where he hit .192. Suddenly, he seemed on the verge of losing the everyday role he fought so hard to attain.

So when Byrnes began sifting through contract offers that December, he looked for the one thing that is often more elusive than even money in baseball: opportunity. It was what led him to accept the D-backs' offer of a one-year deal.

"I didn't doubt whether or not I could do it or be successful," Byrnes said. "I did doubt whether I was going to get the right opportunity, and that was definitely in question. The game is really about opportunity. There are so many guys that have talent, it's just about finding the right opportunity, and that's what I found. I was always looking for a team that believed in me half as much as I believed in myself."

Arizona general manager Josh Byrnes would like to say he saw all this coming when he decided to sign Eric Byrnes -- that he knew he would become a fan favorite and a cornerstone of the franchise. In truth, it was not exactly like that. The D-backs' lineup was heavy on left-handers and short on center fielders. Eric Byrnes, a right-handed hitter who had played center, seemed to be a fit.

"I don't think we overreacted to a bad half season," the D-backs GM said, referring to the outfielder's struggles after the trades from Oakland in 2005. "He had a bat that a lot of us had seen through college, the Minors, winter ball [and] through several good Major League seasons, so we still thought he was a very good player. The thing Byrnes had always done was hit left-handed pitching, so we thought he would be a good fit for us. Sometimes, those things turn out better than you expect."

Just more than two years after that December of uncertainty, Byrnes found himself at the White House, along with Philadelphia's Jimmy Rollins, Detroit's Curtis Granderson, Atlanta's Julio Franco, Boston's Mike Lowell and San Diego's Chris Young, dining with President Bush.

For Byrnes, a politics buff, who can name all 43 presidents in order off the top of his head, it was another example of how far he had come.

"It was probably the greatest opportunity of my life to get the opportunity to meet the leader of the free world," Byrnes said. "Not only just meet him, but to have dinner with him in a social setting and talk to him and ask him questions."

Byrnes did plenty on offense for the D-backs last year, when he hit a career-best .286 with 30 doubles, 21 homers, 83 RBIs and 50 stolen bases in 57 attempts.

A player's impact on defense is harder to measure, but Byrnes captured the award for being the best defensive left fielder by "The Fielding Bible," which was started by well-known sabermetrician Bill James.

"In college, and even in the Minor Leagues, I was a mess out there," Byrnes said of his defense. "It was difficult for me. But that's not unusual, because, like with a lot of things I do, it just takes a while. But when I get it, I get it. It just took me a while. I put in a lot of hours working on my defense, so to come out and get that Bill James Award as the best left fielder in the game, if you had told my teammates at UCLA or Southern Oregon the first place I signed and played, they'd probably laugh. At the same time, I put a lot of effort and pride into it, so it means a lot to me."

Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

Padres' Reliever Heath Bell still is modest after his immediate success last season. Mlb.com explains:

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Success poked holes in Heath Bell's cover of anonymity last season, though that doesn't mean the San Diego reliever can't still pretend that he's a nobody.

"I'm trying not to get a big head," Bell said Wednesday. "I know that I've made a name for myself, but I'm not going to change anything. I'm here working out early and staying late. I'm pretending that I'm still trying to make the team."

Making the team was Bell's primary goal a year ago. He was a newcomer, obtained in a winter deal with the Mets. He knew few players in the clubhouse, though that didn't stop him from doing his job and, eventually, making the team.

"You don't know until it starts playing out. We saw his stuff in the spring and realized that, yeah, he was pretty good," Padres manager Bud Black said of Bell. "But there were a lot of guys with good stuff. He just had to do it in competition."

Bell emerged as one of the top setup pitchers in the National League in 2007, appearing in the fifth-most games (81) in the league while compiling the second-most holds (34) in the NL and the most innings pitched by a reliever (92 2/3).

All told, Bell was 6-4 with a 2.02 ERA with 102 strikeouts and only 30 walks. Opposing batters hit just .185 against him.

"Without him, you know, we wouldn't have been in the position we were in September," Black said. "He was a valuable part of our bullpen, logged a lot of innings, almost from about the first of May on.

"Anybody who pitches in a setup situation or when the team has a lead, you know, those are impact games. And you know those guys are just as valuable as the closer, and he did a great job."

Bell didn't wince or buckle under the heavy workload; instead, he embraced it. He never got that kind of opportunity with the Mets, the team he was drafted by, and made no bones in mentioning that every chance he got.

"I just went out there and if we needed one inning, I gave us one inning. ... If it was two innings, I did that," he said. "I didn't complain about the innings because I got to play. In New York, I never got to play. I was happy, I was playing."

Black and pitching coach Darren Balsley carefully monitor not only the innings pitched by their relievers but how they feel between outings and how many times they get up in the bullpen to throw but never appear. They're cautious of letting any pitching pitch too much.

"He didn't show that he was wavering or that he was showing any less stuff over a period of time," Black said. "There were times when we shut him down or times when he wasn't as sharp as others. But he never mentioned that his arm was sore or tired.

"I don't think he was at any point where we overtaxed him."

Bell's workload was split pretty evenly month-to-month. He pitched 16 2/3 innings in April and never exceeded 18 innings in any given month. There were 12 occasions in 2007 when Bell threw two or more innings, including 2 2/3 innings in the Wild Card play-in game against the Rockies on Oct. 1.

"I don't foresee any problems. He finished the year strong and there was no decrease in stuff or performance as the season wore on," Black said. "All things leading up seem to be in order."

They certainly are this spring for Bell, who is relaxed but certainly not content, by any means. He got a taste of success last season and now he wants more. And he hasn't lost sight of what made him successful in the first place.

"My whole career, I've worked hard," Bell said. "So why let up know?"

Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

Here's MLB.com's analysis on the relationship on Saito's and Kuroda's relationship

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- One could easily argue that he's the most valuable pitcher on the Dodgers.

But in his homeland, he's not even the most valuable pitcher on the Dodgers from Japan.

Takashi Saito might never have heard of Rodney Dangerfield, but he could appreciate the late comic. Talk about no respect.

The Japanese media is at Dodgertown in force this spring, but not to interview Saito, the All-Star closer who made Eric Gagne's departure no big deal.

Japanese journalists are here hanging on every word and pitch of Hiroki Kuroda, who so far has done little more with his right hand than sign a $35.3 million, three-year contract.

"If there is no Kuroda here at Dodgertown, I know we would not be here," said Hideki Okuda of Sports Nippon.

Saito is the most accomplished Japanese Dodger since the trailblazer, Hideo Nomo. Last year, while saving 39 games, he led the league with a 1.40 ERA, a .151 opponents batting average and a 6-1 ratio of strikeouts to walks.

But he came to the United States a year earlier with little fanfare and sparse coverage. He wasn't the ace of the Hiroshima Carp, like Kuroda. He came on a Minor League contract, considered past his prime and almost an afterthought, which he seems to have remained by comparison to Kuroda.

"The reason people in Japan want to know about Kuroda is because he's new and he was a No. 1 pitcher, one of the best pitchers in Japan; maybe even better than Dice-K [Matsuzaka], because Kuroda played for a team that wasn't very strong and he still was one of the three or four best pitchers in Japan," said Okuda.

"In my opinion, we should come see Saito more. The American people feel he's the best at his position, and only Ichiro and Saito are in that category among Japan players in America. Saito is smart, helpful, funny. The Japanese people are proud of Saito. He's a great story. He's a superstar who never shows temper. Maybe he's too good to be true."

Saito plays that role as well as he does closer. Tee up a question about the staggering discrepancy in salaries between him and Kuroda, or the contrast in coverage Saito gets from say, Ichiro, and he not only insists he's not jealous or insulted, but you believe him.

"It doesn't bother me at all, the attention I'm getting compared to them," Saito said through Matt Hidaka, who with Kenji Nimura shares translation duties for the Japanese pitchers. "When I played in Japan, I was not a star as they were and the [salary] numbers reflect that. I am thankful for whatever attention I get. That being said, if I get more, it wouldn't bother me."

Saito is remarkable in many ways, one of which is that he's actually been more successful in the Major Leagues than he was in Japan. How is that possible?

"A combination of things," he suggests. "I didn't start out as a pitcher. I wasn't a pitcher until I was 20 years old in college, and it's taken this long for me to learn the dos and don'ts of being a pitcher. I think there is a greater familiarity between the pitchers and hitters in Japan because there are fewer teams, and I think the strike zone in America is wider and I get better calls with outside sliders. The stadiums are bigger and that helps pitchers. I was a reliever in Japan for only two years, but maybe I'm better suited as a reliever."

And one more thing:

"The style of American baseball is simpler than in Japan. It is interesting. It is fun. The first time I saw it was like a big culture shock."

Saito adapted quickly. It's now folk legend how he broke the ice at Dodgertown before he broke off one of his nasty sliders. In typical baseball hazing fashion, instead of being commanded to sing his school fight song during a pre-practice meeting, he was told to perform Karaoke. If only a video existed of his show-stopping version of the Beatles' "Hey Jude," YouTube's traffic would explode.

When Saito decided to leave Japan for America, it wasn't because teams were falling all over themselves for his services like Kuroda. In fact, Saito said he never asked anyone's opinion whether he should come, because he figured nobody would say yes. So at age 36, with expectations modest, he made the move.

He insists his only goal was to see if he could do it. He felt a sense of accomplishment the first time he stepped on a Major League mound. He said he felt he belonged when catcher Sandy Alomar Jr., after Saito's first Major League win, said: "Welcome to the big leagues." He said he felt like a real Dodger when he received a standing ovation during pregame introductions during the 2006 playoffs.

When he catches himself wondering what would have happened if he had come earlier in his career, Saito convinces himself that 14 years in Japan made him the pitcher he is today.

He said he's thankful to American baseball for the chance, to his family for allowing him to persuade them to let him take this shot. After all, he said, that's what it really was. Just a shot.

"I was coming toward the end of my career in Japan and I always wondered about playing in America," he said. "When the opportunity came, I wanted to take a chance. I didn't want to regret not coming. I wanted the chance to step on a mound, at least once, at the highest level of baseball."

Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

Jake Peavy trys to add to his pitch selection in this mlb.com article

PEORIA -- Jake Peavy's not broke. After taking home the Cy Young hardware and the pitcher's triple crown in 2007, he doesn't need fixing. He found his rhythm early and never missed a beat with a dominating fastball-slider two-step, so it's a hard sell to suggest that he's in need of a change.

"You dance with who brung you, and that's the fastball and slider," said his manager, Bud Black, on Tuesday.

But as has been the case throughout his career, there is another pitch in the wings waiting for the opportunity to cut in on the fastball-slider package and add a new dimension. The changeup that helped Peavy when he first broke into the big leagues remains a plus pitch in his repertoire, and as Peavy explained after Tuesday's workout, he's not averse to bringing it back.

"Early in my career, I used it a lot," Peavy said. "It really got me established in the big leagues. My slider wasn't as consistent as it's gotten today. I've started throwing more of a cutter these days, too, two different sliders. A lot of times, that's really what is most effective, and it's just been hard to go away from what has worked, is what it comes down to."

Still, with a reputation for throwing hard and being all but unhittable, posting a 2.54 ERA and notching 240 strikeouts on his way to a 19-4 record in '07, it's mind-boggling to think of what could happen if Peavy resuscitates an offspeed pitch capable of throwing hitters off balance and confounding expectations.

"Sometimes Jake gets amped up and it's hard, hard and harder," observed general manager Kevin Towers. "He's got a changeup, and it's a good one, it's a plus changeup, and it'll throw the timing off and help him get quicker outs. Maybe not as many strikeouts, but a chance to keep his pitch count down and help him get deeper into games."

Not that there's anything wrong with how the Padres' ace pitched in games last year. But Peavy recognizes as well as anyone the benefit of subtly expanding his arsenal as a means of helping himself and his team in its bid to take the next step.

"The changeup is going to be a big pitch for me, even this year, in sustaining the longevity of my career," Peavy said. "I understand you're not always going to be able to throw 95 at times with a hard slider. When you have those nights when that stuff isn't there, you want to have something to fall back on, to be able to change speeds and get outs. It's certainly something we're working on. I definitely think it can be a plus pitch for me. I want to get it to where it's another thing for those hitters to think about. If you talk to most hitters who face me, they're worrying about sinker-slider."

Sharing a clubhouse with changeup artists like Trevor Hoffman and Greg Maddux makes it hard to ignore the power of the pitch. And as an organization, the Padres emphasize command of the pitch from the moment their prospects enter their Minor League system.

"We push it strongly in our farm system," Towers said of the importance of the changeup. "At the A-ball levels, that is the one pitch that we are adamant about our pitchers learning at a young age. It is truly the equalizer."

The pitch is experiencing something of a renaissance, thanks to a wide-reaching generation of pitchers from Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine to Eric Gagne and Brandon Webb consistently showcasing its effectiveness. The ever-evolving philosophy of pitching often places the ability to force an opposing hitter to change his bat speed as an even more effective technique than the ability to change eye levels.

"One thing about Jake, with hard-hard, even though he does vary the velocity on the slider, with something softer, it really disrupts the timing," Black said. "If you can have the range in velocities, that's the killer. If he can throw a few more pitches in the high 70 mph range to go with the fastball in the low 90s, that is the real advantage for a pitcher. Jake's capable of having that broader range."

Ultimately, Black is in no rush to tweak an ace who had one of the most dominant seasons of any pitcher in recent history last year, but he also recognizes in Peavy the continuing drive to set his sights on higher goals.

"Pitchers and players both always think there's more," Black acknowledged. "That's just the competitor in them. I don't think the good ones are ever satisfied."

For Peavy, the mixture of competitive ambition along with a confidence in the changeup borne from his more extensive use of it earlier in his career -- particularly against some of the dangerous left-handers he has repeatedly faced in the NL West -- promises the forecast of an impending perfect storm if he decides to actively reintroduce opposing hitters to yet another effective pitch to fear.

"We made a conscious effort this spring to get it in there," Peavy said of his changeup. "I'm going to do all I can to make sure that happens. It's just finding the right opportunities to throw it.

"As a starter, you go through the lineup two or three times. When you can save that slider to the second or third at-bat in the sixth, seventh, eighth innings when the game is on the line, it's nothing but a plus. You can use that fastball-changeup-cutter for the first five innings then go to the bigger slider."

Such a scenario can mean even more frustration and confusion in opposing batter's boxes, and the end result could keep Peavy dancing his way back to the top of the charts once again.

Owen Perkins is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.